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ALSOP, Susan Mary TREE, MariettaTo Marietta from Paris 1945-1960. First British Edition in dustjacketWeidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1976, ISBN:0297770942 ALSOP, Susan Mary. To Marietta from Paris 1945-1960. London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, (1976). First British Edition. Pp (8),ix-xi,(3),1-370,+ 8 pp plates. Index. 8vo, blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine. "Their friendship began when, as teen-aged girls, they engaged in spirited political discussions over peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches one Maine summer; it went on to span decades and continents. As the wife of an American attache to the United States Embassy in Paris, Susan Mary Alsop kept up an intimate, witty, andextremely candid correspondence with her childhood friend Marietta Tree. T his remarkable epistolary journal records her impressions of the exciting years she spent as an observer from a very privileged vantage point, as a ravaged Europe emerged from World War II. Here she describes everything from her conversations with Winston Churchill (He has decided I am...French...and nothing will deter him from speaking French to me) and visits to the stately homes of England (Lunching with the Duke of Marlborough is a mixed pleasure. His palace and his park are superb...but he is an arrogant, odious host who thinks he is a lady-killer) to the sound advice she received on the secrets of entertaining from "the only really glamorous woman in the world," Lady Diana Cooper (Oh just give..plenty of booze and hope it will go.) Whether Mrs. Alsop is confiding delicious pieces of gossip about the people who shaped an age--the Windsors, Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West, the Mitford sisters, Rothschilds, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Ho Chi Minh, Elizabeth and Margaret Cocteau, Camus and Sartre, Dior and Balmain--or giving serious assessments in her reporting of events that once again brought the world perilously close to war--the Berlin blockade, French Indo-China, Suez, and Hungary--what emerges from her letters is a spontaneous, totally unaffected, and living social history. All these stories will be in the history books, Mrs. Alsop wrote her friend, but it does send a chill down one's spine to hear them told by the actors in the drama." (from the dj). Penned name, else very good in nicked and torn, but unclipped, dustjacket. 40.00

BALFOUR, MichaelAdversaries : America, Russia and the Open World 1941-62. Firs Editon in dustjacketRoutledge & Kegan Paul, London, Boston and Henley, 1981, ISBN:071000687X BALFOUR, Michael. The Adversaries : America, Russia and the Open World 1941-62. London, Boston and Henley : Routledge & Kegan Paul, (1981). First Edition. Pp (6),vii-xv,(1),1-259,(1). Index. 8vo, red cloth, gilt lettering to spine. "The AtJantic Charter of 1941 constituted the West's blue-print for post-war society. Accordingly it is here that Michael Balfour begins his account of how America and Russia developed as the rival super-powers' in that society. By 1962 the American concept of an Open World had brought a widedegree of political and economic freedom to half the globe, together with an unprecedented and apparently lasting affluence. Command Economies, however, are incompatible with Open Worlds. Rather than fall into line with the American design, the Soviet Union persevered with its conflicting system and thereby divided the world into two antagonistic halves. This new political pattern generated the crucial question of the post-war years: will the clash of views end in war or can the two halves learn to co-exist ? By 1962 it began to look as if this question could be answered optimistically, and it is here that the narrative part of the book ends after covering the economic and strategic aspects as well as the politics. In a concluding chapter the author relects on these developments and on the possibility that 1962 was a false dawn." (from the dj), Contents : Chapter 1. 1941-5. 1. The signing of the Atlantic Charter. 2. Roosevelt rejects a compromise peace. 3. Articles 2 and 3 of the Charter and political freedom. 4. Article 4 of the Charter and economic freedom Chapter 21. 1845-7. 1. Truman and the Roosevelt legacy. 2. America and the reconstruction of Russia, 3. Compromise in Germany. 4. The punishment of war criminals. 5. Control of the atomic bomb, 6. Britain after 1945. 7. France and Italy. 8. The US and the USSR in Eastern Europe. 9. Breakdown in Germany. 10. Hull's policies come to a halt. 11. The unnecessary panic. 12. A tragedy without villains. Chapter 3. 1947-9. 1. Marshall Aid. 2. The Russian reaction. 3. The Berlin blockade. 4. The Brussels Pact and NATO. 5. The establishment of two German Republics. 6. The Council of Europe. 7. The establishment of Israel. Appendix: World production and consumption of oil 1938-77. Chapter 4. 1950-2. 1. The Korean War. 2. The impact of the Korean War in Europe. 3. West Germany's economic miracle (Wirtschaftswunder). , 4. Britain in the 1950s. 5. The Schuman Plan. 6. The European Defence Community. 7. Communist reactions to the EDC. Chapter 5. 1953-5. 1. The death of Stalin. 2. Western European Union. 3. The path towards detente. 4. The transient triumph of Tito. 5. The European Economic Community. 6. The Suez crisis. 7. The Twentieth Party Congress.- Poland and Hungary. Appendix: The Russian system of government. Chapter 6. 1957-60. 1. The Sputnik/ 2. Khrushchev and Berlin. , 3. Algeria and de Gaulle. 4. Britain fails to fit the EEC into the OEEC. 5. The American and Russian economies compared. 6. Half the American dream comes true. Appendix: Annual average rates of growth of output per head of population 1870-1962. Chapter 7. 1961-2. 1. The building of the Berlin Wall. 2. Adenauer m decline. 3. Britain tans to enter the EEC. 4. The Cuban crisis. Chapter 8. Concluding reflections. 1. Adjusting to change. 2. The prospects for growth. 3. Is growth desirable ? 4. The days of horse and candle are over. 5. The limits of co-existence. Very good in spine-browned, unclipped dustjacket. 45.00

BEKE, Laszlo KOSSAR, Leon ZOLTAN, Ralph M.Student's Diary : Budapest, October 16 - November 1, 1956. First Canadian Edition in dustjacketMacmillan Company of Canada Limited, Toronto, 1957, BEKE, Laszlo. A Student's Diary : Budapest, October 16 - November 1, 1956. Edited and translated by Leon Kossar and Ralph M. Zoltan. Toronto : The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, 1957. First Canadian Edition. Pp (8),9-125,(3).Illustrated with sketches. 8vo, black cloth boards, white cloth spinewith black and white and red and green panels. "Laszlo Beke is the pseudon ym of a young Hungarian art student who was one of the organizers of the Budapest protest meetings that triggered the Hungarian revolution. He was a leader of the freedom fighters who, sometimes with guns and sometimes with little more than their fists, stormed the radio station and the headquartersof the dread secret police and battled Soviet tanks against incredible odd s. He witnessed the dramatic return of Cardinal Mintndszenty and was among the student representatives who vainly conferred with the leaders of the government. Only near the end, when it became irrevocably clear that the Russians were once more encircling the city for the ultimate onslaught, did Laszio Beke and his pregnant wife make their perilous escape to refuge in the West. In this diary, reconstructed from his notes and sketches after he finally reached Canada, he vividly and dramatically recounts the events of those catastrophic days and nights. His story is simply told: the revolution as seen by a student who helped to start it and who helped to lead it. Yet few will read this small volume as merely the timely report of an absorbing recent event, for it is a deeply moving document of human strength, culminating in the triumph and tragedy of men struggling to be free. The author's illustrations give added emotional impact to his story." (from the dj). Penned name, else very god in rubbed, ,browned, slightly torn, but unclipped, dustjacket. 18.00

BEMELMANS, LudwigMy War with the United States. Second American Printing in dustjacketViking Press, New York, 1949, BEMELMANS, Ludwig. My War with the United States. New York : The Viking Press, (July) 1937. Second Printing. Pp (10),9-151,(7). Illustrated. 8vo, beige illustrated cloth, spine lettering in black, top edge dyed red. "Ludwig Bemelmans, as these words are written, is somewhere in Ecuador, winding slowly on horseback toward the head-waters of the Amazon. When he reaches the coast some weeks from now, he will board a small tramp steamer named the Comedian and sail for the Galapagos Islands. What he will do after that, no one, not even himself, has the faintest idea. When Ludwig Bemelmans first came to America he worked as a busboy in a Chinese restaurant. Some years later he was the proprietor of the Hapsburg, one of the ftnest restaurants in New York. Recently he has devoted ail the time he could spare from his wife and his daughter to writing and illustrating. Hansi and The Golden Basket are two books from his pen whose charming individuality has endeared them togrown- ups as well as to the children for whom they were made. The studio of Jascha Heifetz and the stage decor for Noah stand to his credit, as do articles, stories, and illustrations in Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Town and Country, Fortune, and Story." (from the dj). "The chapters of this book were translated from the pages of my German diary which I kept during my service in the United States army." (from the Foreword). Contents : Foreword; Please Don't Shoot; Tile Operation; Summer Sprouts; The Good Prisoners; Mad Maitre d'Hotel; To the Left; Tirol in Buffalo; David; The Mess in Order; The Buttermachine; Night on Guard; A Trip to Mississipi; Leave of Absence; The Widow from Scranton; Polish Kate's; The Army Is Like a Mother; Bayonet School. Ludwig Bemelmans (April 27, 1898 – October 1, 1962) was an Austria-Hungary-born American writer and illustrator of children's books. He is known best for the Madeline picture books. Very good in chipped, browned, price-clipped dustjacket. 22.00

"'Armies on the Danube 1809' is a history and organizational guide to one of the most bitterly contested and evenly matched campaigns of the Napoleonic era. In 1809, for the fifth time since the advent of the French Revolution, Austria declared yet another war on France. Determined to defeat the 'corrupting forces of revolution and anarchy who, by their very existence, threaten our way of life,' Emperor Francis II of Austriasent into the field a new army with the country's best general at its head . Learning from the humiliating, disastrous defeats of the Ulm - Austerlitz campaigns of 1805, Archduke Charles of Austria reorganized and retrained thecountry's armed forces in preparation for the inevitable renewed struggle against France. In 1809 his time came. With far-flung Napoleonic armies across Europe and Iberia, the Habsburgs mobilized and struck. Advantages of preparation and surprise yielded some initial successes but soon the Austro-Hungarian forces were driven back deep into their country by an adversary who was no ordinary general." -from the dustjacket.

BRUCE-CHWATT, Leonard Jan ZULUETA, Julian deRise and Fall of Malaria in Europe : A historico-epidemiological study. First Edition in dustjacketOxford University Press,, London, 1980, ISBN:0198581688 BRUCE-CHWATT, Leonard Jan, and Julian de ZULUETA. The Rise and Fall of Malaria in Europe : A Historico-Epidemiological Study. (Oxford) : Published on behalf of the Regional Office for Eurooe of the World Health Organization [by] Oxford University Press, 1980. First Edition. Pp (6),[vii]-xvi,[1],+ 48pp plates. Maps. Index. 8vo, navy cloth, gilt lettering to spine. "Althoug h 'intermittent fevers' or 'agues' had retreated from northern Europe in the nineteenth century, southern Europe remained in the grip of seasonal epidemics of malaria until the 1950s. Endemic malaria has now disappeared from the whole of Europe thanks to the efforts of the countries concerned and the co-ordination and support provided by the World Health Organization. The publication of this book, written by two internationally known malariologists, coincides with the commemoration of the centenary of the discovery of the malaria parasite by Alphonse Laveran. The authors trace the biological origins of malaria on the continent of Europe, follow the course of this ancient disease, and outline its influence on historical events. The narrativecovers the period from the first description of intermittent fevers by Gre ek and Roman writers and physicians, through the Middle Ages, and up to thepresent time. The book is not only a historical record based on some new s ources but is also an epidemiological study of various geographical, climatic, entomological, socio-economic, and political factors that have contributed to the elimination of malaria as a serious public health problem in Europe. The authors describe in detail the organization and progress of malaria eradication programmes during the past quarter of a century in Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Romania, Yugoslavia, and the USSR. The resurgence of malaria in Asia and the enormous prevalence of the disease in Africa are still matters of particular concern for the world, and the authors stress theserious menace now presented by malaria imported into many European countr ies from the tropics. The book is illustrated by a large number of photographs and drawings, many of them hitherto unpublished, and contains an extensive bibliography." (from the dj). Contents : 1. Introduction. 2. Origins. 3. Historical record. 4. Malaria in the Balkan countries (Albania, Bulgaria,Greece, Romania, Yugoslavia, European Turkey). 5. Malaria in two Mediterra nean islands (Malta and Cyprus). 6. Malaria in Central Europe (Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Switzerland). 7. Malaria in France. 8. Malaria in Germany. 9. Malaria in Italy. 10. Malaria in the Netherlands and Belgium. 11. Malaria in Scandinavia (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden). 12. Malaria in Spain and Portugal. 13. Malaria in the United Kingdom. 14. Malaria in Eastern Europe (Poland and the U.S.S.R.). 15. International Organizations and theeradication of malaria from Europe. 16. With hindsight into the future. A few faint pencil marks, else very good in spine-sunned, price-clipped dustjacket (tear to top of spine). 150.00

CURLE, J. H.Gold Mines of the World. Third Edition (Revised and extended in scope). with the author's complimentsGeorge Routledge & Sons, Limited / The Engineering and Mining Journal, London / New York, 1905, 1905 CURLE, J. H. >b>The Gold Mines of the World. Third Edition (Revised and extended in scope). Written after an inspection of nearly five hundred mines in Transvaal, Rhodesia, West Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, New Zealand, India, Malay Peninsula, Siberia, United States, Alaska, Klondyke, British Columbia, Mexico, Peru, Brazil, Sudan, Hungary, Bohemia, and Wales. With plans and photographs. London : George Routledge & Sons, Limited / New York : The Engineering and Mining Journal, 1905. Pp (10),[vii]-x,(2),[1]-308, folding frontispiece, + 11 other maps + 38 plates. Index. Large 8vo, red cloth, gilt lettering to front board and spine.

Contents : 1. Sources of the Gold Supply. 2. Britain's Position in Gold Mining. 3. The Economic Factor. 4. "Mine Valuation." 5. The Gold Mines of the Transvaal. 6. The Gold Mines of the Transvaal (continued). 7. The Gold Mines of the Transvaal (continued). 8. The Gold Mines of Rhodesia. 9. The Gold Mines of West Australia. 10. The Gold Mines of Eastern Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, and New Guinea. 11. The Gold Mines of the East. 12. The Gold Mines of Russia and Siberia. 13. The Gold Mines of the United States and Alaska. 14. The Gold Mines of Canada, Mexico, and Central and South America. 15. The Gold Mines of Mozambique, West Africa, Egypt, Sudan, Hungary, Bohemia, Wales, etc.

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EAYRS, JamesCanada in World Affairs [Vol.9] : October 1955 to June 1967.Oxford University Press / Canadian Institute of International Affairs., Toronto, 1959, EAYRS, James. Canada in World Affairs [Vol. IX] : October 1955 to June 1967. Toronto : Oxford University Press, 1959. Published under the auspices of The Canadian Institute of International Affairs. Pp (10),[1]-291,(3). Index. 8vo, blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine. “This book appears less than three years after the events it describes. The reader will find the immediacyof his own recollections reinforced here by an incisive account of the eve nts which led to the conflicts over Hungary and Suez. Canada's role in these crises is fully and lucidly described in this comprehensive account of Canadian actions and influence abroad during this critical period. The military and non-military aspects of the Atlantic Alliance, continental defence, the issue of American investment in Canada, the Columbia River dispute and SEATO were among the problems confronting Canada between October 1955 and June 1967 which Dr. Eayrs discusses and analyses. Authoritative,fully documented, and written in pungent style, this volume is an outstanding addition to the Canada in World Affairs series.” - from the dj. Contents : 1. The changing setting of Canadian foreign policy. 2. Canada and the Communist world: Europe. 3. Canada and the Communist world: Asia. 4. Problems of Canadian-American relations. 5. Canada in the Commonwealth. 6. Canada in the UnitedNations. Very good in lightly spine-browned and slightly nicked dustjacket . 40.00

FALUDY, George. SKELTON, Robin, ed. and trans. Modern Canadian Poets series.Selected Poems : 1933-1980. First Paperback Edition.McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1985, ISBN:0771031173 FALUDY, George. Selected Poems : 1933-1980. Edited and translated by Robin Skelton, in collaboration with the author. With additional translations by Robert Bringhurst, John Robert Colombo, Andrew Faludy, Eric Johnson, GeorgeJohnston, George Jonas, Arthur Koestler, Dennis Lee, Sean Virgo, and Steph en Vizinczey. (Toronto): McClelland and Stewart, (1985). First Paperback Printing. (6),vii-viii,(4),13-232,(8). 8vo, printed grey card covers with redand black lettering to front cover, black lettering to spine. A volume in The Modern Canadian Poets series. Preface by Eric Johnson. "George Faludy is an international figure of prominence and a poet who has attained great stature for his spirit, lyricism, and humanist concerns of love and freedom.There has been no east European poet more widely read or revered, in spite of attempts in his own native country to suppress his work. Now, in this v olume, edited by Robin Skelton, Faludy's poetic work is made available to English readers in translations that are faithful to the original and reproduce with unfailing accuracy Faludy's vibrance, sensual depictions of thingsand ideas, and above all his virtuosity and range. This is the first book in any language to contain an accurate biographical account of George Faludy's remarkable life, as well as a complete checklist of his previously published works." -from rear cover.A very good, tight copy. Uncommon. 45.00